I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

When love begs hatred & sorrow, show it your heart. For what you sow you reap, what you feel you seek.

Sometimes you find a lie, and sometimes it finds you.

Do everything with the greatest possible calm and serenity and out of the greatest, purest and holiest love of Jesus and Mary.

We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

Don’t wait around waiting for God to do something that He’s already given you the power to do.

I cannot stand authority.

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.